Deadlines

If you were planning to submit haiku or other short poems to tinywords, today is the last day to do it until their next reading period opens up.

For anyone wanting to enter the 2013 Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition, submissions must be postmarked (or emailed) by the end of the month.

Mu also closes to submissions on the 31st.

If you have haiku that you can't get in to Mu or tinywords in time, you can submit to Acorn through the end of February.

Upcoming deadlines

It's almost 2013, and to start the year off with some good publishing opportunities, here are a couple of upcoming haiku deadlines:

- Mu, An International Haiku Journal, is open to submissions for its fifth issue until January 31st, 2013.  There is no payment for accepted poems, other than the joy of publication.  No simultaneous submissions or previously published poems.

- tinywords is open to submissions of short poems for its next issue (unthemed).  Previously published poems will be considered, but simultaneous submissions won't.  The submission deadline is January 20th, 2013. There is no payment for accepted poems.

- The North Carolina Poetry Society is sponsoring a bunch of poetry contests, including the Griffin-Farlow Haiku Award.  There are three prizes -- $25, $15, and $10 -- and everyone can submit one entry.  There is a $3 entry fee per poem if you're not an NCPS member.  The deadline for submissions is January 12th, 2013.  (Thanks to Haiku Reality for posting this contest notice.)